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rectangular, the third more than twice the length of the second, 

 tapering, obtuse; face sparsely clothed with silvery white scales. 

 Mesonotum dark brown, variably and diffusely margined laterally 

 and anteriorly with silvery white, the submedian lines rather thickly 

 clothed with silvery white scales, the sublateral areas sparsely 

 clothed with short, whitish hairs. Scutellum fuscous yellowish, 

 clothed with a few coarse setae apically, postscutellum a little 

 darker. Abdomen dark brown, the first segment rather thickly 

 clothed with silvery white scales, the second, third and fourth 

 nearly so, except for a variable, diffuse median fuscous spot, the 

 sixth, seventh and eighth segments dark brown, thickly margined 

 posteriorly with silvery, incisures and apex of abdomen fuscous 

 yellowish, genitalia fuscous; venter with a broad median stripe, 

 thickly clothed with silvery white scales, the sublateral areas dark 

 brown. Wings hyaline, costa dark brown, the long, whitish discal 

 spot at the basal half; the tip of the third vein uniting therewith; 

 halteres pale yellowish. Coxae and femora mostly pale yellowish, the 

 latter with a variable median band of light fuscous, tibiae light 

 fuscous, narrowly banded at the extremities with pale yellowish, 

 the first and second tarsal segments mostly light yellowish, darker 

 distally, the third, fourth and fifth mostly dark brown; claws long, 

 slender, strongly curved. Genitalia; basal clasp segment long, 

 stout; terminal clasp segment long, stout basally, tapering; dorsal 

 plate long, broad, deeply and narrowly incised; ventral plate shorter, 

 broad, broadly rounded; harpes stout at base, tapering. 



Female. Length 2 mm. Antennae dark brown, basally yellowish; 

 23 segments, the fifth with a length about three-fourths its diameter; 

 terminal segment slightly produced, obovate. Palpi fuscous 

 yellowish, the first segment irregularly subquadrate, swollen distally, 

 the second one-half longer, narrowly oval, the third more slender 

 and one-fourth longer than the second, the fourth more slender 

 and one-half longer than the third; face thickly white-scaled. 

 Mesonotum dark brown, variably margined with silvery white scales, 

 submedian lines thickly yellow-haired. Scutellum reddish brown, 

 sparsely clothed with whitish hairs, postscutellum yellowish. 

 Abdomen dark brown, the basal segment thickly silvery white- 

 scaled, segments two to six narrowly margined posteriorly with 

 silvery white, these markings continued laterally to form a crenulate 

 lateral line; wing, see plate 5, figure 8; ovipositor pale yellowish; 

 venter dark brown with the median third rather sparsely white- 

 scaled. Tarsi a nearly uniform dark brown, the first segment 

 narrowly annulate with whitish. Ovipositor about one-half the 

 length of the abdomen, the lobes long, tapering, narrowly rounded. 

 Type Cecid. ai4i5. 



Neolasioptera sexmaculata Felt 



1908 Felt, E. P. N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 124, p. 331 



This species was taken at Nassau, N. Y., June 14, 1906, probably 

 on cherry and again captured July 17th of the same year on a house 

 window. 



